XML Binding

[Fábio]

Hi friends,

I have the following XML:

<NewDataSet>
   <student id="001" name="Jonh"/>
   <student  id="002" name="Mary"/>
   <... .../>
<NewDataSet/>

It's in memory created XML and I need to bind it to a ComboBox.
To get the students from the XML string I'm using:

{
  XElement xmlDoc;
  ...
  xmlDoc = XElement.Parse(XMLString);
  ...
  var myQuery = from p in xmlDoc.Elements("student")
            select p;
  ...
  myComboBox.ItemsSource = myQuery;
}

In my combo, ValuePath is "ID" and MemberOath is "NAME".
Well, "You need to create a class..." you may say... but the XML data changes.
It can be Student ID, Student Name.... Student ID, Student Adress... Teacher ID, Teacher Name.... it's a very dynamic data with and ID and XYZ

How to bind this kind of XML ?

Best regards

[Fábio]

Hello !?

Any clue for my question ?

[Valeri Hristov]

Hi Fábio,

You could either create several forms, containing different comboboxes, bound to the corresponding members, or create a class, that "knows" how to handle the different attribute names of the data XML. Unfortunately RadComboBox cannot automatically guess what's the correct member to bind to.

Best wishes,
Valeri Hristov
the Telerik team